Heddon Bush School Curriculum Plan

Introduction

This is our curriculum plan. There will be various interpretations of it within individual classrooms, which is encouraged, since it has been designed to give teachers the confidence and flexibility to recognise their students’ abilities, interests and needs and enhance rich learning experiences in unique and special ways.

Therefore, our curriculum plan is deliberately uncomplicated and based on ‘the big pictures’ about things that are important to us and our pupils. As a result, our teachers are trusted and supported to use their professional judgement regarding their interpretation of this curriculum plan. (It is, however, expected that any such interpretation will be consistent with this plan.)

There are several reoccurring themes. It is no coincidence, for example, that our ideas about key competencies resonate with our principles, our values and our vision; nor that the language we use continues to echo throughout this document and, therefore, throughout a genuinely coherent and connected curriculum.

We believe that “curriculum” means more than those things which are articulated here. Our curriculum is defined by the learning that our students actually experience (and not necessarily what is printed in our planning document!) We believe, therefore,  in evidence in ‘practice’ and not evidence on ‘paper’ alone.

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Introduction | Our Vision | Our Principles | Our Values | Our Competencies | Curriculum Structure
Our Teaching and learning | Our Curriculum Fundamentals | Our Assessment and Reporting
Our Local Goals | Our Professional Development Journey